NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +120%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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